Hello, everyone!
It has been a good progress week for FoA (something I attribute to the need to feel like something is within my control, thanks Autism brain!) I've written 16,000 words since this time last week, bringing the chapter's current total to 69,000 (nice, I know).
We're still in the middle of the scene with the goddess coming to visit, because v a r i a t i o n s, but I think I'm about 3/4 through it at this point, and hope to have it completed by this time next week, s...
2023-06-12 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
I've elected to do more character questionnaires this round for bonus content, because I found quite a few questions I rather liked. I'd almost call this the 'Dispositional' questionnaire, because it's a lot of self-reflecting on personality and relationships with others, as well as some reflection on the past.
First up for this set is Charon, and I do think some of the answers are pretty informative, if I may say so.
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2023-06-07 02:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
No news in the apartment hunt yet, but thank you for your support. :)
FoA-wise, I've decided to try and knuckle down and get back to my usual pace of writing, since my short study term has finished for now (contingent on one assignment grade I don't have yet). As a result, I've been quite busy since the BIP came out, and the chapter now has 53,000 words, which is 8k up from Wednesday. I'm hoping to keep it up over the rest of the month. Right now, those words are bei...
2023-06-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As promised, here's the BIP, now with 45k brand-new words, including two fully-finished scenes and one more underway. I hope you like it, and as always if you encounter any trouble, inconsistencies, or other odd things while playing, I'd love to know.
2023-05-31 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
For those of you waiting on the BIP, it'll be here in an hour. In the meantime (and for everyone else), I bring you this month's bonus content poll!
We're scheduled to get some Alekto POV in June. The last of those featured her mid-battle with the PC alongside. So naturally the question is: would you rather see her as I've done the others, visiting them after the fight is over, or is backstory preferable this time around?
2023-05-31 01:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
This week has brought a rather large change in my personal life—I'm now staying with my partner's family as we look for a place to rent here in Brisbane. The market is frankly awful for renters; everything's way too expensive and still likely to be snapped up within a couple days of being advertised. And of course, two people looking for work just don't look as good on those applications as people with actual current jobs do, so it might take us a lot of work and heart...
2023-05-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
As promised, here's a bit of angsty Charon POV for you all. They have a lot of similarities to Hades when it comes to self-esteem, but those feelings are coming from very different places, and he handles them quite differently, too.
I hope you enjoy!
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“What would it hurt?” Hades asks.
Charon has always admired him for being able to do that. For being able to ask a question like that with nothing but complete sincerity. If Hekate...
2023-05-24 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone!
The chapter continues apace! I've managed another 10,000 words on it, and in so doing have completed the scene with Demeter. That brings the chapter to 33,000 words in total, and next up I'll be working on a scene where the PC receives a visit from either the goddess they're friends with (as determined at the party in chapter one), or their Aunt Hestia, even if they didn't go to that. She'll be able to give a bit more perspective on what's going on outside Demeter...
2023-05-22 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
I've had a pretty eventful week, I must admit. Perhaps the biggest piece of news is that the last chapter of my other project (Diaspora) just saw public release, so I'm waiting for the inevitable flood of bug reports and so on, and am sure to be busy with those, on top of my short-term study projects, and of course FoA.
But I'm still making pretty good progress! Chapter Nine is now up to 23,000 words, 12,000 more than last week. It's not quite as fast as ...
2023-05-15 02:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
As promised, the first of this month's bonus contents continues the old questionnaire rotation from before Patreon got readjusted. This month it's Hekate's turn. I hope you enjoy the little bits of insight into her character!
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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?
Ten minutes late, as for me that means I was doing something interesting enough that it was hard to tear myself away from. And isn’t that exactly the...
2023-05-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I'm back to announce that the super-awesome @gncrezan on tumblr has continued their fantastic river deity commission series for me, this time featuring Acheron. He's probably the river god that's featured least so far, in part because of his personality—he's pretty withdrawn and antisocial, and content to mostly hang out with his partners and a few close friends. But who knows? He may make a few more ap...
2023-05-10 00:22:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
It's been quite a week! I'm overwhelmed by the response to Chapter Eight, and trying to keep up with the influx of messages to my askbox haha. Fortunately none of them have been bug reports, which is always a big relief.
Meanwhile, I continue to trek forward on Chapter Nine, which starts off with a pretty big plot development that the PC can respond to in numerous ways. This is going to be something of a tough one to write in some senses, because none of the ROs w...
2023-05-08 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
May is here, which for me means a very pleasant downturn in temperature. Unfortunately, as many of you know I'm still quite under the weather, metaphorically-speaking, but I'm happy to report that things have been going well otherwise. It was my partner's birthday yesterday, the first of those that we've spent together, so that was really nice even though we're both a bit ill.
The BIP went out yesterday, with the outline of Chapter Nine in it, and today in ju...
2023-05-01 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
While I continue to fight off the last of this flu, I have made the rough outline of Chapter Nine. Sadly I haven't been able to fill any of it in just yet, but hopefully this should be something interesting to click through for those of you who like having a sense of what's coming up!
Fortunately, with the outline done, I should be in the clear to write for the entire month of May, so there should be some actual game text in this slot next month, and a fair bit of it!
2023-04-30 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
The question for the bonus content poll is pretty simple this month, really. The content will feature Charon, so what I'd like to know is whether you'd like me to continue the 'while PC was injured' series or do something else with this one. :)
2023-04-30 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello, friends in the Blossom and Bud tiers!
As promised, I bring you chapter eight, hopefully edited sufficiently that it reads well, though it's admittedly a bit hard to tell because, well, it was over 180,000 words of editing to get through in under a week, and when I tell you that reading 30,000 words that closely in one sitting is kinda terrible...
Anyway! It's done and I'm glad, because it means it's your turn to read it! As always, I'd love to know what you think, but be aw...
2023-04-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
This month's RO POV features Hades, and you wanted to see him just after the end of Chapter Seven, so here he is in all his angstiness, heh.
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Hades pauses at the threshold, angling his body to see in through the half-ajar door.
As he’d already sensed, Hekate is within, no doubt monitoring her patient. One of a few, at this point in time, unfortunately; he’s just visited the unconscious Pyriphelgethon next door, and before that it had b...
2023-04-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
It's been a long week of editing, but I'm pleased to announce that early access for chapter eight is live. Those of you in the Everbloom tier should have access to the whole thing now; please let me know if you have any trouble accessing it. Meanwhile, everyone in the Blossom and Bud tiers will gain access on Thursday the 27th, and the Seedlings will have it on May 1, three days before the release goes public on May 4.
I hope you all enjoy it; it turned out to ...
2023-04-24 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Everblooms!
As promised, I bring you chapter eight, hopefully edited sufficiently that it reads well, though it's admittedly a bit hard to tell because, well, it was over 180,000 words of editing to get through in under a week, and when I tell you that reading 30,000 words that closely in one sitting is kinda terrible...
Anyway! It's done and I'm glad, because it means it's your turn to read it! As always, I'd love to know what you think, but be aware that if you send...
2023-04-24 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I've got good news this week: Chapter Eight is officially drafted! Right now that means I am going back through and editing so it is fit for consumption, which has been going decently-well so far. Then I will need to run all the debugging and tests, but after that, we'll be ready for the early access cycle to begin!
So I am writing this into existence now: Early Access will begin for those of you in the Everbloom Tier on next Monday, 24 April. That means public...
2023-04-17 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone!
The first of this month's bonus contents features an 'interview' of sorts with Hermes. I've only got a couple more to go before the 'round' of Q&As is finished; I'm not sure what I'll put in this slot next, but for now I hope you enjoy his answers. :)
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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?
Oh, ten late. No question. It would annoy exactly the right people, I think.
2. Would you rath...
2023-04-12 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
It was another productive week for writing, if a bit less steady than usual. Some of what I'm working on right now has a bit of emotional heft to it, at least from the perspective of the rest of the cast, and I tend to get a little 'into their feelings' when I write things like that, so it's been an interesting last few days especially.
The good news is, Chapter Eight is very rapidly approaching its conclusion! I'm at the very last part of the very last scene...
2023-04-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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I keep confusing myself with the date format, so I'm just going to name the month from here on out, heh.
Anyway! Here we are again at the weekly update. As many of you know, the BIP went out just a few days ago with the 60,000 new words I managed to write in March. Here we are again with a new month, and I'm hoping to write close to the same amount. I don't think I'll manage quite that much because there will likely be about a week in the middle of it where I am editing Chapter Ei...
2023-04-03 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello, everyone!
New month, new build-in-progress. For those of you new to the Patreon, this is the game with an incomplete Chapter Eight tacked onto the end, for those of you who don't mind playing part of a chapter and seeing the outline for the rest.
That said, it's not that incomplete at this point! We've got 160,000 words in total in the chapter right now, which is a full 60k up from last month, and puts us partway through the final scene of the chapter. That should mea...
2023-03-31 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all! Up on the rotation for the vote-able bonus content in April is Hades. I'm not totally sure what kind of scene I want to do from his POV yet, so help me out by voting for one, if you'd be so kind. :)
And for those of you waiting patiently for the BIP, it will be up in an hour.
2023-03-31 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Progress continues—the chapter is now at 152k words, up 14,000 from this time last week. I'm still in the first part of the last scene, as I wrote considerable variations for the ROs/POs reacting to how the PC had or hadn't customized their room, and for six of them with about the same number of room choices, that was a lot of variation!
That said, it's all done now, and I don't think any of the other parts of this conversation are going to vary quite th...
2023-03-27 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
As you voted for in the poll last month, we have here a scene with Hermes. Like the others I've been doing in this slot recently, it features our boy during the time Seph is unconscious, and in his case, during the delivery of some very unpleasant news to a very concerned Demeter. I hope you enjoy it. :)
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Hermes really doesn’t want to be here. Especially not doing this.
But theoretically, it’s his responsibility. He’s...
2023-03-22 02:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello again, everyone!
It's been another good week for writing. The chapter is up to 138,000 words as of today, which is another 14,000 up from last week. I've now finished the Orpheus and Eurydice scenes, and have moved on to the last scene of the chapter, which is bound to be a chunky one because of course there is a variation of it for every route. That said, I'm hoping that, as a read, it won't drag, but will have a definite impact, because it contains my remix of a very crucial myt...
2023-03-20 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody!
It was a good week for progress this time. I've added another 14,000 words to the chapter, bringing us to a total of 124,000 now. I'm also making major headway through the actual myth portion of the Orpheus and Eurydice stuff, which is swiftly approaching the tragic (or not quite so tragic, depending on your choices) ending.
I'm actually pretty happy with the endings I've come up with for this version of that story. I didn't want any of them to be an unqualifi...
2023-03-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
As I suggested I might be, I'll be cycling through a few questionnaires in the bonus content for this slot for a little bit. Most of these are only visible at the Blossom Tier or above, but from here on they'll be viewable by Bud Tier folks as well.
This month, we have Pyri answering some 'would you rather' style questions, which I hope is entertaining. :)
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1. Would you rather always be 10 minutes late or 20 minutes early?<...
2023-03-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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